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  1. Visual framing of vaping: How Instagram influencers shape perceptions of vaping through images

    Article • Frontiers in Communication, May 2026, Frontiers

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian, Charlotte Wien

  2. “I hope to get some hope”: balancing expectations, hope, and acceptance in naturally occurring consultations without a medical diagnosis

    Article • International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being, September 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  3. “But when I come home…”: How patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain account for their absent pain during naturally occurring clinical consultations

    Article • Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare, January 2025, PAGEPress Publications

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  4. ‘The MRI-scan says it is completely normal’: Reassurance attempts in clinical encounters among patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain

    Article • Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine, October 2024, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  5. “That bastard chose me”: the use of metaphor in women’s cancer blogs

    Article • Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare, August 2024, PAGEPress Publications

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  6. Conceptualizing negotiation in the clinical encounter – A scoping review using principles from critical interpretive synthesis

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, April 2024, Elsevier

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  7. ‘My cousin said to me . . .’ Patients’ use of third-party references to facilitate shared decision-making during naturally occurring primary care consultations

    Article • Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine, July 2023, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  8. ‘I’d best take out life insurance, then.’ Conceptualisations of risk and uncertainty in primary care consultations, and implications for shared decision-making

    Article • Health Risk & Society, March 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  9. ‘It feels like my metabolism has shut down’. Negotiating interactional roles and epistemic positions in a primary care consultation

    Article • Health Expectations, November 2022, Wiley

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  10. ‘Beyond my Control’: Dealing with the Existential Uncertainty of Cancer in Online Texts

    Article • Illness Crisis & Loss, August 2022, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  11. “I’m not the doctor; I’m just the patient”: Patient agency and shared decision-making in naturally occurring primary care consultations

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, July 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  12. Geografiske ulikheter i tilbudet av polikliniske tjenester til barn og unge ved norske sykehus

    Article • Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning, May 2022, Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  13. ‘It’s like getting your car checked’: the social construction of diabetes risk among participants in a population study

    Article • Health Risk & Society, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  14. “Doors Started to Appear:” A Methodological Framework for Analyzing Visuo-Verbal Data Drawing on Roland Barthes’s Classification of Text-Image Relations

    Article • International Journal of Qualitative Methods, January 2022, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  15. Negotiating uncertainty in clinical encounters: A narrative exploration of naturally occurring primary care consultations

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, December 2021, Elsevier

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  16. Modes of Interaction in Naturally Occurring Medical Encounters With General Practitioners: The “One in a Million” Study

    Article • Qualitative Health Research, March 2021, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  17. Socially constructed and structurally conditioned conflicts in territories of medical uncertainty

    Article • Social Theory & Health, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  18. Health related quality of life of people with non-epileptic seizures: The role of socio-demographic characteristics and stigma

    Article • Seizure, February 2018, Elsevier

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  19. “Blaming, shaming, humiliation”: Stigmatising medical interactions among people with non-epileptic seizures

    Article • Wellcome Open Research, October 2017, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  20. “Blaming, shaming, humiliation”: Stigmatising medical interactions among people with non-epileptic seizures

    Article • Wellcome Open Research, July 2017, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  21. Motivation and obstacles for weight management among young women – a qualitative study with a public health focus - the Tromsø study: Fit Futures

    Article • BMC Public Health, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  22. Cross-sectional study of the differences between measured, perceived and desired body size and their relations with self-perceived health in young adults: The Tromsø Study – Fit Futures 2

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, February 2017, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  23. “It´s incredible how much I´ve had to fight.” Negotiating medical uncertainty in clinical encounters

    Article • International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  24. Experiences of general practitioner continuity among women with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis: a cross-sectional study

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  25. “I Do Not Really Belong Out There Anymore” Sense of Being and Belonging .....

    Article • Qualitative Health Research, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  26. Generating a Social Movement Online Community through an Online Discourse: The Case of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

    Article • Medical Humanities, April 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  27. How do women with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis rate quality and coordination of healthcare services? A cross-sectional study

    Article • BMJ Open, April 2016, BMJ

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  28. Life according to ME: Caught in the ebb-tide

    Article • Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine, January 2016, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  29. Factors facilitating patient satisfaction among women with medically unexplained long-term fatigue: A relational perspective

    Article • Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine, May 2015, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  30. Medical constructions of long‐term exhaustion, past and present

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, April 2015, Wiley

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  31. Overweight and obesity in young adult women: A matter of health or appearance? The Tromsø study: Fit futures

    Article • International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  32. “United We Stand”

    Article • Qualitative Health Research, December 2014, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  33. Continuity of GP care is associated with lower use of complementary and alternative medical providers: a population-based cross-sectional survey

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  34. Diagnosenes sosiologi: Medisinske forståelser av utmattede kvinner – før og nå

    Article • Sosiologisk tidsskrift, November 2013, Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  35. Holdninger til legesøkning - variasjoner etter sosial tilhørighet?

    Article • Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening, January 2012, Norwegian Medical Association

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  36. Global challenges, global solutions? A cross-national comparison of primary health care in Britain, Norway and the Czech Republic

    Article • Health Sociology Review, June 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  37. Rural Doctors on a Global Stage: Do Local Communities Make a Difference?

    Article • Social Theory & Health, February 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  38. Convergence or Divergence? Reforming Primary Care in Norway and Britain

    Article • Milbank Quarterly, June 2003, Wiley

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian

  39. Norms for priority setting among health professionals: a view from Norway

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, May 2001, Wiley

    Prof. Olaug S. Lian